Family Finance - General Money Manage Posts

When’s the last time you checked your financial health? Do you know if you’re heading down a path to financial trouble? It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day grind and forget to look at your finances until it’s too late.  Sometimes, in that grind, you build up bad habits that put your financial health at …

We’ve spent the better part of the last decade living on a budget and guess what… I Love It!! Budgeting has been our ticket to being able to travel when we want, buy the things we want, and continue to get closer and closer to financial freedom. I know what you might be thinking, budgeting is …

Let’s face it, we all have our own version of what broke is. For some, it’s literally not having enough money to buy groceries or pay the bills. For others, it’s living off ramen noodles and not going out with your friends because we can’t afford to. Or maybe you make more than all of us …

Over the last few months, we’ve received a lot of questions about saving money and how we were able to build our nest egg to well over six figures in such a short amount of time. Well, we got to thinking and decided that instead of just sharing our story, why don’t we walk you through the …

When’s the last time you checked your credit score?  If the answer is more than a year ago, you are making a mistake.  How are you going to know if you have a good credit score or not?? Every one of us should be checking our credit score each year.  Knowing what your credit score is …

How would you like to retire with a million-dollar nest egg?? It’s really not as crazy of an idea as you might think. Stick with me, and I’ll explain how, with a little retirement planning, anyone can retire a millionaire. I think the biggest misconception people have when they think of a millionaire is that it’s only …

Do you find yourself living paycheck to paycheck?  Do you ever get halfway through the pay period and wonder where all your money went… Why do you think that this happens to people? My theory is that they don’t actually know where their money is going.  We used to be guilty of that every month.  We …

Wouldn’t you like to save up to 20% of your income each year? Budgeting, and more importantly following it, might seem like a daunting task but if you stick with it, money will start falling out of your pockets.  Okay, so maybe not literally, but figuratively, yes, it will! Have you ever been a week …